From: <hessian@sympatico.ca> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:07 AM =============================== > Source: MUELLER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Johann MUELLER, Hessian Soldier of the American Revolution. > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: MUELLER, MILLER, BERGER. > > Message Board URL: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TF2.2ACEB/1070 > > Message Board Post: > > In a book by R. M. Bruce, titled "The Loyalist Trail", I found > the following note: > > MILLER, John, Hessian, settled Township # 5, Upper Canada. > > In another book "The settlement of Prince Edward County" > by Mika Publishing (1984) page 227: > > MILLER, John, came with group of disbanded troops and Loyalists who settled in TS #5, Bay of Quinte, 4. Oct.1784 > (this is not the Reitzenstein group) > > In "The Old United Empire Loyalists List" published by the > Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, page 212: > > MILLER, John, Marysburgh and Sophiasburgh. Soldier > German troops, per Provision List 1786. Stamped Book, A.Mcl. > > All these entries concern one man who settled 1784 at > the Fifth Township in Marysburgh, Bay of Quinte on Lake > Ontario, Upper Canada, which is now the Province of > Ontario, Canada. > > Due to the great number of Hessian and Brunswick soldiers > who were serving in the German auxiliary troops, I was not > able to determine for sure who this Marysburgh settler > really was. Many were discharged in Quebec at the end > of the American revolution, and one of them even married > in Montreal at the Christ Church Anglican in July 1783. > His name was listed as John MILLER, and his wife was > Mary BERGER. > > In one book "Early Ontario Settlers - a Source book, also > published by the Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, > author Norman K. Crowder, 1993, many entries between > 1784 and 1786 refer to the Marysburgh settler as John Miller > and Conrad Miller, although it seems those both names > concern only one man. It could well be that his full name > was actually Johann Conrad MUELLER, and as was the > custom, the second name being the calling name, but many > military files just mention the first given name. This may > have been the case with John or Conrad. > In any event, I bring this up for your amusement, and to let you know that on Saturday the 21. August 2004, the descendants of those Hessian settlers will come together > at the Rose House Museum in Waupoos, Bay of Quinte, > Ontario, to celebrate 'Hessian Day". Big tent, music, food, > and entertainment. All descendants are invited to participate > in the activities and meet old and new cousins. > > See you there, > John Helmut Merz, > researching Hessian soldiers of the American Revolution. >